Tag: comedy

  • On Mrs. Maisel and Moxie and Marvelous Manhattan

    On Mrs. Maisel and Moxie and Marvelous Manhattan

    Awards season officially kicked off a couple weekends ago with the 75th annual Golden Globes. I have a soft spot for award shows, even if acceptance speeches have an uncanny ability to make me cry, and this ceremony, with its black-washed, #MeToo, #TimesUp theme, was particularly moving. Fierce, brave, powerful women took the stage again…

  • Zelda’s 8 Favorite New (to her) Podcasts

    Zelda’s 8 Favorite New (to her) Podcasts

    We here are at Zelda and Scout are big fans of the pod, as a medium. We spend a good chunk of our lives in transit, you see — on trains, on buses, walking to and fro — and so our lives are rife with opportunities to delve into the wonderful world of on-demand radio…

  • Bring on the Lovers, Liars, and Clowns

    Bring on the Lovers, Liars, and Clowns

    If it hasn’t been established thoroughly already, I am a nerd. It’s a badge I wear proudly, although that wasn’t always the case. Being a nerd is cool these days, and I couldn’t be happier about it, because it’s allowed me to learn about many things I never would have known about before. and living…

  • Scout’s Top 5 Comedy Specials to Help You Laugh Away Your Winter Blues

    Scout’s Top 5 Comedy Specials to Help You Laugh Away Your Winter Blues

    We are no strangers to Seasonal Affective Disorder here at Zelda & Scout (so sad…), and especially with Winter Superstorm/Snowpocalypse/Snowmaggedon/Blizzard of Doom Juno dominating our news feeds this week with its (luckily unfulfilled) promises of frozen destruction, we’ve both been feeling the winter blues as of late. When the weather gets Scout down, she turns…

  • GRITS: Leslie Jones

    GRITS: Leslie Jones

    This article is part of our series “GRITS: Girls Raised in the South,” in which we profile some of our favorite Dixie ladies and the things that make them awesome. Got an idea for a fabulous femme we should feature? Shoot us an email at zeldaandscout@gmail.com! (Alliteration optional.) Name: Leslie Jones Born: September 7, 1967,…